Thornton, Tamara Plakins. Cultivating Gentlemen: the Meaning of Country Life among the Boston Elite, 1785-1865. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. Includes notes on James Bowdoin, Samuel Downer, Cheever Newhall, John Welles and Marshall Pinckney Wilder.

Dyer, David. The Perfection of Christian Life in Heaven. Boston: Press of T.R. Marvin, 1848.

Storrs, Richard Salter. Discourse Delivered in the Second Congregational Church, Dorchester, Ms., Monday, Dec. 27, 1847, at the Funeral of Rev. John Codman, Late Pastor of Said Church. 2d ed. Boston: Press of T.R. Marvin, 1848.

Capt. John CodmanOther Merchants and Sea Captains of Old Boston. Boston: State Street Trust Company, 1919.

William C. Codman

Other Merchants and Sea Captains of Old Boston. Boston: State Street Trust Company, 1919.

Isaac Howe Davenport

Demarest, Thomas. "The Baylor Massacre -- Some Assorted Notes and Information." Published in Bergen County History 1971 Annual, Bergen County Historical Society, River Edge, NJ
Isaac Howe Davenport, a soldier from Dorchester was killed in the massacre.

James Davenport

Harris, Thaddeus Mason. Address at the Interment of R.W. James Davenport; July 17, 1824. By R.W. Thaddeus Mason Harris, D.D. To Which Is Added, A Memoir of His Services as a Soldier in the Revolutionary War, Extracted from his Journal. Boston: Published at the Christian Register Office. John B. Russell, printer, 1824.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Ghost of Dr. Harris. A short story about an apparition in the Boston Athenaeum. See separate icon at the bottom of this page.

Huntoon, Benjamin. Eulogy, delivered by the Request of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, at the Funeral Services in Commemoration of Rev. and R.W. Thaddeus Mason Harris, D.D., and R.W. Brother Samuel Thaxter, at the Masonic Temple, May 45h, 1842. Boston; B.H. Greene, 1842.

Grant, Stephen. "Peter Strickland, Sea Captain from New London, First U.S. Consul to French West Africa, Agent in Transatlantic Trade." In Collections v. XI, 2003, Published by The University of Delaware Library Associates. 2003.

Grant, Stephen. Peter Strickland: New London Shipmaster, Boston Merchant, First Consul to Senegal.

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